Merry Maladjusted Holidays!
Or: How I Learned to Stop Waiting and Just Send the Damn Newsletter
Alright, so first, may all of you malcontents have a merry set of maladjusted holidays!
Welp. I guess this newsletter is quietly shifting into a monthly publication. And once it slides beyond that, we’ll be right back where it started: a never publication.
If this sounds defeatist—if you sense an air of frustration in my words—it’s because I’ve watched myself do this over and over again.
Still, I’ll try to get it together. And the first step in doing that is identifying the problem.
One of those problems? I keep feeling like I need to have a certain amount of shit done before I’m allowed to report in. And that’s silly.
So here’s what I’m going to do: I’m going to pretend to set a day and try to get this thing out weekly, whether it feels “ready” or not.
Alright?
Alright.
So—here’s what I’ve been up to:
WRITING
A bit of holiday horror and drear for you folks…
Booster the Moot (03/30/2003)
Most of this was written in 2003. The earliest known digital copy, found in an old .txt file, was dated March 30, 2003. I have handwritten drafts in a folder, but they don’t have dates written on them.
Christmas Time in Dixie (12/08/2006)
I was fairly certain I’d written this in the same evening I’d uploaded it to my blog, December 08, 2006, after finally getting a break from finals. That certainty didn’t survive a dive into my files, where I found multiple handwritten fragments and several digital versions, each with slight variations. I have reconciled my issues and decided on this fin…
PODCASTS
DC on SCREEN
Our 2025 Spotify Wrapped | Warm-Up
In this Patreon exclusive, Jason Goss and I discuss James Gunn’s top songs a little before divulging our top songs, artists and albums. Of course we also complain about Spotify and talk music in general for a while.
Star Trek Universe
THE SOCIAL BEAST
Okay, I didn’t say much on social media these last few weeks, but this one I was proud of:
